Re: [IUG] Bibliographic Record Time Out?

[Bob Duncan <duncanr at lafayette dot edu>]

At 07:59 PM 11/29/2011, Mary wrote:
> My memory may be failing, but it seems to me that there has long 
> been a default 30 minute timeout in webpac if the Timeout WWWoption 
> is disabled or blank...

If there is, it's not being applied on our system.

...and...

At 08:12 PM 11/29/2011, Mia wrote:
> Bob, did you disable the timeout completely by de-activating the 
> TIMEOUT wwwoption?

Remove it, make it inactive, it doesn't matter.  If you configure a 
timeout wwwoption, then you should get a timeout; if you don't, then 
you should not.  Unless something has changed and it's not being 
applied in our system, this functionality is client side -- if you 
have a timeout wwwoption in place and you view the source code of a 
dynamic page, then you should see a script element with a call to the 
"startTimeout" function (which is defined in common.js) and a meta 
element (in a noscript element) with an http-equiv=refresh attribute, 
and inactive browsers will get timed out after the configured time 
has elapsed.  If you don't have a timeout wwwoption configured, then 
you should not see these in the source code of dynamic pages and the 
browser should be able to sit inactive 'til the end of time without timing out.

Bob Duncan


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Robert E. Duncan
Integrated Technologies Librarian
Lafayette College
Easton, PA  18042
duncanr at lafayette dot edu
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